Death can’t kill these beauties. They’re just as hot beyond the grave as they were before it. Maybe even a little more so! So put aside the fact that they’re definitely dead, maybe a little squishy, and possibly smelly. These zombie babes are still attractive, even if it does make you a little uncomfortable.

#10 - Number 9 - Land of the Dead

#10. Number 9 – Land of the Dead (Jennifer Baxter) – So she’s got a little funk on her face and she wasn’t exactly a main player in George A. Romero’s 2005 Land of The Dead – but behind all that rot you have to admit she’s kinda banging. And bonus? Not only did she lead the pack of Zeds alongside Big Daddy, but she got a kill too. Double hot points for that.

#8. Angela Mason – Supernatural Season 2: “Children’ Shouldn’t Play With Dead Things” (Tamara Feldman) – For a dead chick she’s pretty lithe and super passionate, mostly about killing the people that piss her off. Angela is out for vengeance and looks way hot while doing it. Oh, and as a side note, head shots won’t slow this little lady down.

#7 - Jane O'Flynn

#7. Jane O’Flynn – Survival of the Dead (Kathleen Monroe) – All she wants is a kiss. What’s hotter then a cowgirl corpse? Not much really. So like the saying goes – save a horse, ride a cowgirl… zombie.

#6 - Rain Ocampo

#6. Rain Ocampo – Resident Evil (Michelle Rodriguez) – She’s volatile alive or dead. Rain spends most of Resident Evil as a dead woman walking. You spend most of the film hoping she survives before she tries to eat Alice’s face. Definitely could have done with more zombie Michelle Rodriguez.

#4. She –Cemetery Man aka Dellamorte Dellamore (Anna Falchi) – A breath-taking widow turned flesh eater – “She” is the one Francesco of Cemetery Man pines for even after death. “She” comes and goes throughout the film and eventually beds down with the eager Francesco. Who then proceeds to set her on fire. Hot, right?

#3 - Trash

#3. Trash – Return of the Living Dead (Linnea Quigley) – This punk chick spends almost the entire movie buck nekkid. Her dream? Getting ripped apart by men. Her reality? Getting ripped apart by zombies and coming back as one of the hottest naked living dead in cinematic history.

#2 - Julie Walker

#2. Julie Walker – Return of the Living Dead III (Melinda Clarke) – Julie’s demise was her own fault. Had she not been so eager to grab crotches maybe she wouldn’t have died flying off that motorcycle. But no worries, thanks to her Boyfriend Curt and some Trioxin gas, she’s back. And hungry. But unlike most living dead, Julie doesn’t want to eat people and discovers pain is a great way to mask hunger. And you know what? Hundreds of self-inflicted glass shard-stabs later, she’s still foxy.

#1 - Kat

#1. Kat – Zombie Strippers (Jenna Jameson) – Being a zombie super stripper isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Kat would know. She’s the original blood splattered “exotic” dancer. Sure, the tips are good, but after a while you start to lose your edge and maybe a leg. But when you’re good, DAYUM! You’re good.

About GoresTruly

Friday, August 13th, 2010 – serendipitously inspired by the day – five friends decided there just wasn’t enough fem-driven horror sites on the internet. So to amend that we formed GoresTruly.com, a web site dedicated to everything well - horror. Movies, conventions, costumes, literature, comics and more.

What an amazing category! Great list. The tricky thing is to be specific enough to fit it. I tried to be careful to exclude other living dead women like vampires and demons, but I more or less failed. One reason this was difficult is that women in horror movies often feature as dazed groupies (I call them Maenads) who for all intents act like zombies, but who may be vampires, or even living. I imagine a zombie to be virtually mindless and driven by appetite. In most cases I tried to find a figure who was not peripheral to the action, and who genuinely kicked ass.

ZOMBIE ZOMBIES
Johnny Sunshine – a surprisingly clever and extremely violent independent Romero-like satire about a post apocalyptic world where zombies are used for entertainment by the affluent and hedonistic living. Johnny is a formidable, entrepreneurial zombie who satisfies her bloodlust by making and selling snuff videos where she tortures other zombies (or in some cases, living people – at some point the difference almost becomes moot). Her appearance and demeanor seem modeled on Trinity from The Matrix films.

Living Dead Girl – Does she qualify? She comes back from the dead and is mostly listless except when she tears people apart. But she’s lucid, at least with her best friend, who fronts for her. Jean Rollin’s most graphically violent film.

“Death Factory” and “Death Factory 2” – movies work from very different premises, but the same iconic female monster figure (hard to describe, but it looks like director Brad Sykes saw Return of the Living Dead 3 and decided to make a movie where that female zombie was the central monster – very cheap, but extremely violent, and satisfying if you thought ROTLD3 wasted the potential of its poster image). The sequel ends with a duel between 2 sexy female zombies! The monster and the newly zombified female protagonist.

Zombie 4 – African voodoo doctor’s wife gets possessed and starts flying around eating people. Doesn’t seem like a zombie at all (at least not in the post-Romero sense), more like those Evil Dead characters, but the title is very explicit, and the pedigree of the Fulci series is impeccable, so I included her.

Tombs of the Blind Dead – one of the protagonist’s friends is bitten by the Knights of Templar and winds up zombified. Great scene when she slowly rises from slab and attacks mortician from behind.

Feast 3 – full blooded cult grindhouse series with a rag tag group beseiged by obscene and voracious monsters. In the third part they are attacked underground by a living dead horde led by a zombie queen. There is a climactic fight between her and a vengeful chopper chick (frustratingly obscured by blackout/strobe lighting), who offs her in a way that has to be seen to be believed.

Sugar Hill – the 70s movie, not the Wesley Snipes movie. Pam Grier type voodoo priestess who uses zombies to get revenge. In one scene she revives a group of weird female zombies with metallic orbs for eyes, who seem covered in spider webs, and they give their victim a “massage” before he turns around and realizes what they are…

Flesh Eating Mothers – movie has the comic tone you’d expect from the title. Doesn’t stint on the violence, with extended scenes of people torn apart kicking and screaming.

Shadow Dead Riot – a WIP mad scientist zombie movie with Tony Todd. What’s not to like? Mad scientist experiments on female inmates using blood of demonic executed murderer Todd. His blood turns them into bloodthirsty zombies, especially the impressive Tatianna Butler, who gives an exhilarating performance as the first and strongest one to be transformed.

HONORARY ZOMBIES
Dracula 1978 – not sexy as such, and, strictly speaking, a vampire, but I had to include this because it’s the most genuinely frightening portrayal I’ve ever seen of an encounter with the living dead. In this version, the doomed Lucy figure is Van Helsing’s daughter. They go into the crypt to uncover her body, and she emerges from the darkness to meet them saying “Papa…papa…”

Night Fangs – also, strictly speaking, vampires. However, they are more like mindless animals. The first part of the film is more intriguing. Two lesbian art teachers fascinated by the occult are searching for the secret to immortality. They lure victims to sacrifice, and things get complicated when one of their more attractive students emerges as a candidate, testing their resolve. The two women leads are magnetic, especially the formidable Cyn Dulay, and their relationship is interesting, so I thought this should have been the main thread of the film, but the sacrifice goes through and there’s about half the film left with the two of them, now depersonalized, ravenous monsters, chasing the rest of their young students around a dark house. As I recall, in the credits someone is listed as the “animal behavior consultant”, or something like that.

Revenge of the Living Dead Girls – also a cheat; they seem like zombies. However, it turns out they’re living women, masquerading as zombies with skull face masks, carrying out some sort of plot. When I saw their horrendous violence, I accepted it as standard living dead behavior, but in retrospect it’s startling and ruthless coming from live perpetrators.

Demon Queen – low budget film, almost a home movie. Demon Queen possesses suburban housewife and she comes back in decayed zombie form. The whole movie consists of a group of women hanging out in this house and being picked off one at a time as their blood makes her grow younger. Gore effects are cheap but extreme, and they deliver in a H G Lewis sort of way.

Bloodsucking Freaks – the frenzied, cannibal women kept in a cage in the basement are actually alive, but in all other respects their behavior is identical to what you’d expect from a bunch of caged zombies (except dancing with body parts).

There’s another film I don’t have the title for – Spanish or Italian, from the 70s, where a mysterious figure in a black cape and hat revives dead women and makes them into his deadly zombie slaves.